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	Aberdeen

Patty2007

8-15-2007 1:41 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3a02b7d8-d523-4f43-bf77-20fa23206c99/AEE2C9D4-06C6-4F13-A280-2C3645937673/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/aberdeen/aberdeen/index.html" href="http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/aberdeen/aberdeen/index.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/aberdeen/aberdeen/index.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/img/92BAB893-E8F7-459E-BDAA-81EBA64D3200" alt="Union Street" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/aberdeen/aberdeen/index.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/img/48FE5175-3A83-4F3B-8012-857F2EDA97C2" alt="Castlegate" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/aberdeen/aberdeen/index.html"><P minmax_bound="true">The original settlement, often referred to as Aberdon, lay at the northern end of today's city, on the south bank of the River Don. This probably existed in Roman times and stayed in use after <A href="http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/abc/gnaeusjuliusagricola.html" minmax_bound="true">Julius Agricola's</A> army briefly passed through in AD 84 (see our <A href="http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usfeatures/timeline/to1000.html" minmax_bound="true">Historical Timeline</A>). Certainly there was a settlement here that was sacked and burned by marauding Danes in the 900s. This area is now better known as Old Aberdeen or Aulton ("Old Town"). </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/aberdeen/aberdeen/index.html"><P minmax_bound="true">It was David I who created "New Aberdeen" in 1136. This built upon an older settlement on the north bank of the River Dee and ought properly to have been called "Aberdee". It's been suggested that "Aberdeen" was a compromise that drew together the separate villages overlooking the Don and the Dee. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/aberdeen/aberdeen/index.html"></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AEE2C9D4-06C6-4F13-A280-2C3645937673/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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